Meta moments cluster into four primitives. Parabreak ships typed scenario blocks for each — drop them in, no engine fork. The illustrations below are how each category feels at runtime, not screenshots of any specific game.
Read, rename, delete, corrupt, or stamp persistent flags that survive across slots and reinstalls. The game notices what the player did last time.
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Characters notice your save, your name, your last choice — and rewrite mid-sentence. Detect repeated choices, intercept back-button retries, pause for player action.
text_corruptdialogue_reactivewait_for_actiondetect_repeat_choicedetect_back_attempt
Destroy or disable buttons. Rename slots. Change the window title. Fail the quit. The chrome is now part of the story, not separate from it.
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OS-style fake dialogs, clipboard read/write, real-time clock awareness, slot impersonation, scene live-reload. Use sparingly — these earn their reaction by being rare.
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Every hook is a JSON block in a scenario file. Same schema, same loader, same hot-reload. Core ships open. Hooks + Plus unlock the reactive and advanced layers.
한국 인디 씬은 메타 픽션과 4번째 벽 깨기에 가장 빨리 반응하는 시장 중 하나입니다. parabreak는 한국어 텍스트, 한글 시스템 메시지, 한국 인디 페스티벌 트랙을 1순위로 지원합니다.
메타 게임의 임팩트는 "개발자가 나를 본다"는 감각에서 옵니다. 그 감각은 번역체에서 절반쯤 죽습니다. parabreak의 첫 출시는 영어와 한국어를 동시에, 같은 품질로 다룹니다 — 한국 개발자가 영어로 번역해 출시하는 게임에서도, 한국어 원문 게임에서도, 같은 hook이 자연스럽게 동작하도록.
The engine is the engine. Tiers unlock more block types — they don't ship a different runtime. Buy the tier you need, upgrade later, the scenarios still load. One-time payment, no subscriptions.
dialogue_reactive, text_corrupt, wait_for_action and detect_repeat_choice blocks proxy through Dialogic 2 timelines via a thin adapter. Drop both addons in, no patching required.
res://addons/parabreak and registers an autoload. You stay on stock Godot 4.x and update normally — we track the engine, not the other way around.,
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q: "Can players mod parabreak hooks at runtime?",
a: <>Yes — scenario blocks are JSON and the loader supports a res://mods/ override path. Modders can swap or extend block handlers without recompiling. We document the mod surface in the docs site, and the Plus tier ships an example mod template.,
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q: "Does it play nice with Dialogic 2?",
a: <>Parabreak doesn't replace dialogue plugins — it augments them. The dialogue_reactive, wait_for_action, and detect_repeat_choice blocks proxy through whatever dialogue system you're using, including Dialogic 2. There's a thin adapter; we'll keep it current.,
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q: "What about commercial use? Royalties?",
a: <>None. The Core is MIT licensed. Hooks and Plus tiers are commercial licenses with no royalties — buy once, ship forever, including paid Steam releases. We only ask that you don't redistribute the paid blocks as a separate product.,
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q: "Can I buy Plus, then downgrade?",
a: <>You can. Scenarios using Plus blocks will refuse to load on a Hooks or Core install with a clear error pointing to which block needs the upgrade — your project doesn't break silently.,
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{
q: "Is fake_dialog deceptive? Will Steam reject it?",
a: <>Used as a narrative beat (rare, in-context, with a clear "you're still in the game" reveal), it's standard meta-fiction craft. Used to actually deceive the player — phishing, fake updates — Steam will reject and so will we. The block ships with a safe_mode default that watermarks the dialog corner with a small "in-game" tag unless you opt out.,
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q: "Why Korean docs at launch?",
a: <>Because the meta-fiction reading is sharper there, and our team can ship that quality without translating through a third party. See the Korean Tier Signal section above.,
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Parabreak is small enough that the people building it talk to the people shipping with it. Here's where that happens.
Real-time questions, scenario reviews, build-shares. Korean and English channels, both staffed by the team.
Core is MIT and developed in the open. File issues, send PRs, watch the roadmap update in real time.
Community-submitted scenario JSONs you can drop into your project as a starting point. Tag your own, get featured.